About 90 works by Bates.
The collection includes more than one early edition of Charlotte’s Row, The Day of the Tortoise, Fair
Stood the Wind for France, The Feast of July, Love for Lydia, Oh! To be In
England, and The Sleepless Moon.
The collection contains several early editions of collections of Bates’s
short stories and novellas.

Buchan, John, 1875-1940

One of the world’s most
comprehensive collections of works by Buchan, including early and multiple
editions of The Battle of the Somme, The Blanket of the Dark, Castle Gay, The
Gap in the Curtain, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, John Burnet of Barns, John Macnab,
The Magic Walking-Stick, Memory Hold-the-Door, Midwinter, Mountain Meadow, The
Path of the King, Prester John, Sir Quixote of the Moors, Sir Walter Raleigh,
Sir Walter Scott, and The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Byron, George Gordon
Byron, Baron, 1788-1824

More than 250 published
versions of works by Byron. The collection includes early and multiple editions
of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, The Corsair, Don Juan, English Bards, and
Scotch Reviewers, The Giacour, Hebrew Melodies, Hours of Idleness, The Lament of
Tasso, Lara, Manfred, Mazeppa, Monody on the death of the Right Honourable R. B.
Sheridan, Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, Poems on His Domestic Circumstances, The
Siege of Corinth, Werner and Works. The collection also
includes German, Italian, and Spanish editions. The library also holds a
small collection of papers relating to Bryon and his family.

Carlyle, Thomas,
1795-1881

More than 100 versions of
Carlyle’s published works. The collection includes early and multiple editions
of The French Revolution, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Latter-day
Pamphlets, The Life of Friedrich Schiller, The Life of John Sterling, On Heroes,
Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Past and Present, Sartor Resartus,
and Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches. The library holds a
100-item Carlyle manuscript collection that includes letters written by Carlyle
and his wife, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle.

Coleridge, Samuel
Taylor, 1772-1834

About 120 versions of
Coleridge’s works. The collection includes early and multiple editions of
Aids to Reflection, Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My
Literary Life and Opinions, Christabel, &c, The Friend; A Series of Essays,
Remorse, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Lyrical Ballads. A
copy of the 1817 edition of his work Sibylline Leaves contains the
following note: “Coleridge’s copy with his corrections for a new edition.”
The library also holds a commonplace book of Coleridge’s, which includes
manuscript copies of several poems.

Conrad, Joseph,
1857-1924

A small Conrad manuscript
collection that contains letters by Conrad concerning literary and personal
matters. There are also about 60
letters by Conrad in the library’s Francis W. Dawson Papers and about 75 versions of Conrad’s published works. Included in
the Dawson Papers are letters by Conrad’s wife Jessie and photographs of theConrad family.Published works include early editions of Heart of
Darkness, The Nature of a Crime, The Nigger of the “Narcissus,” Nostromo,
A Tale of the Seaboard, The Rescue, Romance, The Rover, Tales of Hearsay,
Typhoon, and Victory.

Defoe, Daniel,
1661?-1731

More than 170 versions of
works by Defoe. The collection includes early and multiple editions of
Robinson Crusoe (early editions of this work were titled The Life and
Most Surprizing (or Surprising) Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) and A Tour
Thro’ the Whole Island of Great
Britain. The collection also
includes works attributed to Defoe, including Faction Display’d and A
Short History of the Parliament, as well as German editions of Fortunate
Mistress and Robinson Crusoe.

Dickens, Charles,
1812-1870

About 160 versions of
Dickens’s published works. The collection includes early and multiple editions
of Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, David
Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual
Friend, Sketches by Boz, The Uncommercial Traveller, and Martin
Chuzzlewit. The Old Curiosity Shop,Barnaby Rudge, and other works
are present in their original serialized form.

Dryden, John, 1631-1700

About 175 versions of works
by Dryden, including multiple and early editions of Absalom and Achitophel,
All for Love, Amphitryon, Aureng-zebe, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards,
The Indian Emperor, The Rival Ladies, Secret Love, The Spanish Fryar, Sr Martin
Marr-all, and Tyrannick Love. The collection also includes editions
of Dryden’s translations into English of works by Ovid, Plutarch, and Virgil.

Fielding, Henry,
1707-1754

About 60 versions of
Fielding’s published works. The collection includes early and multiple editions
of The History of Tom Jones, The Miser, Tom Thumb, and The Works of
Henry Fielding. The collection includes editions of the History of Tom
Jones in French and German.

Goldsmith, Oliver,
1730?-1774

More than 100 versions of
Goldsmith’s works. The collection includes early and multiple editions of A
History of England…, The Citizen of the World, The Deserted Village, Roman
History, The Good Natur’d Man, Grecian History, A History of the Earth, and
Animated Nature, The Life of Richard Nash, The Miscellaneous Works of Dr.
Goldsmith, The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, The
Traveller, and The Vicar of Wakefield.

Haggard, H. Rider,
1856-1925

About 90 works by Haggard.
The collection includes multiple early editions of Ayesha, the Return of She,
Allan Quatermain, Dawn, Eric Brighteyes, Heart of the World, Joan Haste, King
Solomon’s Mines, Morning Star, Mr. Meeson’s Will, Nada the Lily, Regeneration,
She and Allan, The Wanderer’s Necklace, The Witch’s Head, and The
Wizard. The library also holds a manuscript collection of about 100 items
that document Haggard’s life and career.

Johnson, Samuel,
1709-1784

About 140 versions of
Johnson’s works. The collection includes early and multiple editions of A
Dictionary of the English Language, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abssinia,
The Idler, A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland, The Lives of the Most
Eminent English Poets, The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, and The
Seasons: Containing, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. The collection also
contains several editions of two serials, The Adventurer and The
Rambler, to which Johnson was the primary contributor. There are also
several 18th- and 19th-c. editions of Shakespeare’s plays,
poems, and dramatic works for which Johnson wrote prefaces.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637

Over 35 versions of
Jonson’s works, including multiple and early editions of Every Man in His
Humor, The Works of Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, and Volpone. The
collection also includes several editions of Jonson’s plays, as well as a 1655
English translation of the Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar in which
there are commendatory poems by Jonson.

Keats, John, 1795-1821

Early and multiple
editions of Keats’s poetry. Non-poetry titles include The Letters of
John Keats to Fanny Browne and Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of
John Keats.

Milton, John, 1608-1674

About 150 versions of
Milton’s works including multiple and early editions of Comus, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, and The History
of Britain. There are more than 20 editions of Paradise
Lost alone,dating from 1669 to 1976.

Morris, William,
1834-1896

About 90 letters written by
Morris in the Thomas Wardle Papers. The letters pertain to the collaboration
between Morris and Wardle on the design and production of textiles. The library also
holds a number of books produced by Morris’s Kelmscott Press, including a
beautiful copy of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Newly Augmented (1896).

O’Shaughnessy, Arthur
William Edgar, 1844-1881

The O’Shaughnessy Papers
consist of about 170 items primarily relating to O’Shaughnessy’s literary career
and his relationship with his publisher.

Pope, Alexander,
1688-1744

Over 170 versions of works
by Alexander Pope. Most of these items are first or early editions, and
translations into French, German, and Italian are included. In the collection,
for instance, are multiple early editions of An Essay on Man, The Dunciad,
The Letters of Mr. Pope…, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, and The
Works of Alexander Pope. There are as well different editions of Pope’s
English translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey. A 1772
polyglot edition of An Essay on Man includes the work inEnglish,
French, German, Italian and Latin. This is a truly exceptional collection of
Pope’s works.

Rossetti, Dante
Gabriel, 1828-1882

About thirty-five published
versions of works by Rossetti, and a Rossetti manuscript collection of more than
200 items, including unpublished poems, first drafts, and literary notes. Printed works include
several translations into English of La Vita Nuova [of] Dante Alighieri
as well as several early editions of Rossetti’s ballads, sonnets, and poems.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
1792-1822

Over fifty versions of
Shelley’s works. The collection includes early and multiple editions of
Queen Mab and Shelley’s poetry as well as several Italian pamphlets by and
about Shelley in the library’s Guido Mazzoni Collection. The library also holds
typed transcriptions of journals and letters by Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley,
the originals of which are in the British Library.

Stephen, Leslie, Sir,
1832-1904

Early editions of Stephen’s
works about Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Jonathan Swift, and a Stephen
manuscript collection of over 300 items. The collection contains letters by
Stephen that mention his children Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf as well as
correspondence between Stephen and his first wife Harriet Marian (Minny)
Thackeray, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray.

Sterne, Laurence,
1713-1768

Over forty versions of
Sterne’s works. The collection includes early and multiple editions of
Letters from Yorick to Eliza, The Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne,
to His Most Intimate Friends, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy…, A
Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, and
The Works of Laurence Sterne.

A manuscript collection of
more than eighty items, including letters by Tennyson and members of his family
and over eighty versions
of published works by Tennyson, including early editions of The Death of
Oenone, Enoch Arden, Harold: A Drama, Idylls of the King, In Memoriam, The
Princess: A Medley, and Queen Mary, a Drama.

Wordsworth, William,
1770-1850

About twenty-five versions
of works by Wordsworth, including the 1798 first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
There are also several Italian pamphlets pertaining to Wordsworth located in the
Guido Mazzoni Collection.